chocolate covered dough balls

It’s official. I can’t stop ‘til I get enough — which might be never by the way.

Consider it a favor I did not give you this recipe yesterday because you may already have had 15-20 of these balls in your tummy like I do right now.

It hurts so good.

I did probably the best thing I could have ever done recipe wise — combined two of my favorite things: chocolate and a Larabar type ball.

This could be bad (in a good way). Consider these my fall balls on crack.

Chocolate Covered Dough Balls

1 cup vegan semi-sweet chocolate chips

6 dates, pitted

3/4 cup raw almonds

1/2 cup raw pecans

1 cup shredded coconut, unsweetened

2 tsp. vanilla

2 tbsp. maple syrup

1 tbsp. agave nectar

3 tbsp. apple sauce, unsweetened

Directions: Grind almonds and pecans in a food processor until fine like flour. Add coconut and dates and pulse until smooth (kind of).

Add your sweeteners and pulse until a large ball of dough forms. Get down and dirty and use your hands to form about 35 dough balls. Place on a greased cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 8 minutes.

I could have stopped right here — these balls could have been good all by themselves. I even popped 2 or 3 of them in my mouth at this point just to make sure.

Luckily for you all, I like to go big or go home.

Melt 1 cup semi sweet vegan chocolate chips in the microwave. Microwave for 30 seconds, stir, then continue that process until chocolate has melted (it will take about 2 minutes). Roll each dough ball in the chocolate, put on wax paper, and stick in the freezer to set (about 30 minutes)

Paula Deen ain’t got nothin’ on my balls.

I suppose all of you can thank your lucky stars you are about to start a work week, so you will not have free time to continually pop these into your mouth every single time you go into the kitchen. What you could do is make sure they’re out of sight by putting them in the back of the freezer where you hope to “forget” about them until the Holidays come around.

Too bad I’ve already done that. No such luck. I’m going to just accept this addiction. You know what they say anyways — keep on with the force, don’t stop ‘til you get enough.

Oh I love your balls! Dipped in chocolate, even better! I have an entire Ball Recipes arsenal and the only way I have ever found to stop eating them is to stop making them b/c those lil buggers can be highly addictive…haha!

I just re-read the recipe and noticed you bake yours. Ive never baked any of mine. But I have frozen them…for like 6 mos at a time and forgotten about some batches, and they un-freeze, just fine!

I usually don’t bake them, but I figured they would hold up better – and they do! Last time I baked them longer at a lower heat, but this time I already had something in the oven, so just threw it in along with it!

I want to make these!! I was at a party the other night and someone made rice krispy + peanut butter balls and I had to pull myself away before I ate the whole tray! omg and yours with the dates? ahhhhwesome

Well, if you want to hide them, you could always just conveniently lose them in the mail to me, of course . Just kidding. Seriously, though, I recommend just enjoying them to your heart’s content. I can’t say I’d blame you because they look super delicious.

I’d recommend to bring them to work…but I know how that works…people rave. Then you feel obligated to bring more…etc.

But yeah, early Christmad gifts might be a good idea! Wrap them in that festive colored saran wrap and some ribbon and boom.
Good for the fellow teachers, garbage men, mailmen…etc. Maybe when they are all wrapped up you can resist.
~Missy

I found these through http://livinglindsay.com – and I’ve already made them twice this week! I’m going to mention them on my blog, if that’s OK… but will link to your blog for the recipe. Thanks so much, these are a new household staple!

I tried making these tonight and my balls were too wet! I’m not sure what I did wrong! I measured everything correctly. When I went to roll the balls, the dough was way too wet and more balls ended up on my hands than in my mouth!

I had the same problem when I made them today! Still delicious, but too wet. I looked over the recipe several times also and couldn’t figure out what I did wrong… hmm. I will definitely try again, they are SO good!

Ok…ummmm these are AMAZING! WOW I just made them and am not sure how I’m going to keep them for my girls to eat tomorrow. I just drizzled some chocolate on top and I too only ended up with about 18 balls I think. I used my small scoop which is about 1″ I think…no worries they’re delish and I am grateful for the recipe. Thank you